Job Description
This position is responsible for managing all aspects of the melt department's manufacturing operations, including safety, quality, engineering, purchasing, scheduling, human resources, finance, budget planning, and sales.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the organization to a sustaining safety culture
- Lead and manage the organization to a zero-defect quality system
- Ability to work with and manage through coaching people at all levels of the organization to achieve operational results
- Manage and identify continuous improvement of manufacturing systems
- Manage raw material demand and purchasing
- Manage production planning to achieve most efficient and productive melting schedule and balance customer demand requirements
- Build and lead a multifunctional manufacturing team
- Implement and facilitate the establishment of company policies, goal, objectives and procedures
- Ensure that staffing levels are adequate to meet current and projected business forecasts
- Manage exempt and non-exempt salaries to achieve operational and budget goals
- Manage all aspects of the melt department's finances - variable, fixed, raw materials, sga, and capital planning to achieve operational and budget goals
- Failure mode analysis and root cause preventative action implementation
- Evaluate and improve on processes in plasma cold hearth and raw material support manufacturing systems
- Maintain reliable and safe manufacturing systems while improving production rates, efficiencies, yield, costs and changeovers
- Develop and implement innovative solutions to manufacturing problems/issues
- Manage/coordinate manufacturing equipment preventative maintenance, fabrication and repair
- ALL OTHER DUTIES AS REQUIRED
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Material Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar required
- Master's in Business Management preferred
- Minimum 2 years or more leadership experience in manufacturing operations
- 7 yrs. + engineering/manufacturing experience
- Technical skills in Lean Manufacturing techniques, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Process Improvement, freight and distribution, and production scheduling; Black Belt Certification preferred
- Must be able to prioritize multiple requests/projects
- Possess ability to provide leadership, communication, organizational, analytical & problem solving
- 25% travel required
- Must be able to support a 24/7 operation